Senior Pastry Chef

Alexander House Hotel & Utopia Spa; East Grinstead; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounted hotel stays

Spa discounts

Free parking

Uniform provided

Job summary

Alexander House Hotel & Utopia Spa is seeking a Senior Pastry Chef to lead the pastry section in a 3 Rosette kitchen. You will oversee 2 CDPs and 2 Commis Chefs, creating desserts, breads, ice creams, and pastry for restaurants and events.

You will design menus with the Executive Chef, supervise the pastry team, and ensure plated desserts meet Rosette standards. This full-time role demands reliability, creativity, and a passion for outstanding hospitality.

Qualifications

• Experience leading pastry sections in 3 Rosette kitchens or higher.
• Ability to design and adapt dessert menus for restaurants and banqueting.
• Proven skill in producing plated desserts to high standards.
• Strong stock control, ordering and cost awareness.
• Passion and drive to contribute to a high-profile kitchen brigade.

Responsibilities

• Lead the pastry section with support from 2 CDPs and 2 Commis Chefs in a 3 Rosette kitchen.
• Produce all in-house pastries, cakes, desserts and afternoon tea items from scratch.
• Supervise pastry team to maintain consistent high standards.
• Contribute to menu development for restaurant and banqueting.

Skills

Pastry leadership

Dessert plating

Menu design

Stock control

Team supervision

Job description

Senior Pastry Chef

£40,000 per annum + monthly service charge payment

The Place

Alexander House Hotel & Utopia Spa, 5 Red Star, Award winning Utopia Spa, 58 bedrooms including the new luxury Cedar Lodge development and a 2-bedroom self-contained Gatehouse are available for guests.

2 Award winning restaurants, Reflections Restaurant (2 Rosettes x 60 covers), AG’s Restaurant (3 Rosettes x 38 covers) together with a range of conference and banqueting and private dining rooms catering for 8 to 95 guests.

Head up our 2/3AA rosette pastry kitchen under Alan White our Executive Chef. Creating award winning dishes across the range of menu.

The Role

Senior Pastry Chef will be leading the pastry section with the support of 2 Chef de Parties and 2 Commis Chefs in this 3 Rosette kitchen. The kitchen brigade is made up of 22 chefs and 5 kitchen porters so there is a great team to support you.

You and your team will create all dishes fresh in-house from bread to ice-cream and celebration cakes, desserts for our restaurants and banqueting events together with pastries, cakes, scones for our afternoon tea guests. Great variety and freedom to delight our guests.

The Senior Pastry Chef is responsible for:

• Ordering and stock control
• Designing with the Executive Chef menu items for afternoon tea, restaurant as well as banqueting menus
• Produce plated desserts for all menus to 2 & 3 Rosette standard.
• Supervision of pastry team to achieve consistent standards.

The business is varied offering catering for Spa Guests, Leisure clients, Local guests as well as corporate, conference and banqueting function guests. Alexander House is a popular wedding venue with weddings taking place in the Shelley Suite as well as in the private Wedding Garden.

Requirements – Senior Pastry Chef

The ideal candidate would be someone who has worked in a quality environment and is now seeking a senior pastry chef role with responsibility for the Pastry section.

• A full time role, 5 days per week including weekends, straight shifts
• Demonstrate during a trial shift the practical ability to be able to produce plated desserts to 3 Rosette standard.
• Demonstrate flair and creativity to build on the successful afternoon tea menu.
• Hold the experience to manage the multi menu requirements and banqueting operation.
• Ability to control stocks efficiently and to produce quality menu items achieving GP%
• Quality experience in a fresh food environment
• The passion and drive to contribute to the future success of the kitchen brigade who continue to develop award winning dishes.

The Benefits

• 45 hrs over 5 days
• 4 weeks holiday rising to 5 weeks with service
• 8 Bank holidays
• Free car parking
• Employee uniform

In addition you will receive a range of company benefits including: Discounted hotel accommodation for yourself and your family at all hotels Discounted hair treatments at our two Utopia Spas Discount off all food & beverage at all hotels Discount of individual treatments booked in our two Utopia Spas Discount on retail products in our two Utopia Spas Refer a friend staff recruitment scheme In additional you will enjoy a range of other benefits when you celebrate your 1 yr, 3 yr and 5 yr anniversary including; your birthday off paid,complimentary overnight stays, complimentary lunch/afternoon tea and service related holiday

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